Deuteronomy 16:1-8

All right, good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning, we are starting a new chapter of Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy 16. We're going to look at verses one through eight, Deuteronomy 16, verses one through eight. We're going to kind of review the Passover here. So this is continuing on in Moses's sermon speech about the law.
So I have some coffee. We'll pray. No coffee for you, huh? Let's pray. Father, thank you so much for this day. Lord, we thank you that you have given us an opportunity to hear your word, to read it, to think about it, to pray about it. Lord, we pray that you would please help us to have it applied to our hearts. Lord, we need you to care for us in Jesus' name. Amen. All right. Why don't you read verses 1 through 4 and I'll read 5 through 8. OK, let's see. So 1 through 12?
Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God. For in the month of Abib, the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. Therefore, you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd in the place where the Lord chooses to put his name.
You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall Yep, seven days you shall eat. Yeah, so verse three you were at. You shall eat no leavened bread. No leavened bread. What's it? Seven days you shall... I can't see where it goes. Some days you shall eat.
You shall eat leavened bread with the seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it. That is the bread of affliction where you came out of the land of Egypt in haste that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt, all the days of which your life and. And no leaven. And no leaven shall be among you in all your territory for seven days nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day The first day at twilight remain overnight until morning, all right, what is that paragraph talking about? I don't know All right. So in the month of abib, right? So this is one of their months You shall keep the what?
The Passover. And what was the Passover reminding them of? God bringing them out. That's right. So this was the meal they ate, remember, where they couldn't have any leavened bread and they were to sacrifice the slaughtered lamb and eat it all at once. Right. And then that night he took them out. Right. So this was an annual feast. So every year they would remember that God redeemed them, that God was their king, that God had saved them. OK. So and specifically here it was talking about the bread. Right. So no leaven for seven days. Right. OK. So verse five.
You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you. But at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt. You shall roast and eat it in the place which the Lord your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. Six days you shall eat Unleavened bread and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly to Jehovah your God you shall do no work on it So what's that paragraph about?
Okay, so the paragraph you read was largely about the bread what's this paragraph largely about How you like how the feast it's kind of like um, I you know, like when you go to something like a conference or we just went to international, you do something like that, and they have like events that happen. Okay. It's kind of like that, like that's the schedule of what's going to happen. The schedule of events. Okay. So, so it's the bread first for seven, for six days, right? They're eating this unleavened bread, but then on the seventh, they're supposed to actually offer this, the paschal lamb, right?
The, the, the, the lamb of of redemption of of of sorry of the Passover the Passover lamb so you're going to have this Passover lamb and where are they going to have this Passover lamb wherever they want uh no outside of the tents No, it's going to be where the Lord chooses where his tent is.
Remember, the tabernacle is like a tent, right? Like a tent with a courtyard. And so that tabernacle is going to move around. And so wherever the tabernacle is, that's where everybody goes. Now, eventually something will change in Israel where it will go from the tabernacle to the temple. Right. And so everybody knows that, OK, we're going to go to Jerusalem. We're going to go to the temple. Right.
But when it's the tabernacle state, wherever the tabernacle is that's where they all go right once a year in the month of abib that's where they go right so summarize this whole a what is this about what's this whole section about um i think it's about yeah good so it's about the passover good so what do you think is the best verse to summarize it then It's like, as I said, it's like the schedule, not really. Yeah, I think in my Bible, I would probably underline verse one, right?
Oh, we're recording here, love. So verse one, just give us a minute. We'll be done. Olivia's going to reach over and grabs himself here behind us. Verse one, observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib, the Lord your God brought you out of the land of Egypt by night. think that that's that's kind of getting at the heart of what's going on here right because it's the lord redeemed them and that's what they're remembering so let's go to see calling then so how in the world does this impact you uh well you're called yeah what are you called to do we don't do the passover anymore no we don't celebrate the passover anymore why don't we celebrate Hmm, because this is part of the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament. Right. And Jesus fulfilled all the ceremonial laws. So the Book of Hebrews, we're going to get into the Book of Hebrews after we finish Deuteronomy, but Jesus is the fulfillment of all the ceremonial laws that were all pointing to Jesus and all pointing to his ministry. So that's a good question.
Why don't we celebrate this? We don't celebrate it because you know what the Bible calls Jesus, our Passover lamb. Oh, well, I can't get two things done. One, we don't celebrate Passover because we don't, we don't need to, God. Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice. And two, because we do take communion to remind us of why we don't.
Exactly. Right. So we remember our redemption in the Lord's Supper. Right. So remember what Peter says, you were not redeemed with gold or silver, but with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Right. So with our paschal lamb, Jesus is our sacrifice. Jesus is our price for redemption. And so we remember the Lord's Supper. Passover that's our calling Good job, man.
Hey, you want to pray for us? Okay, let's pray I thank you so much for the blessing it is to serve you Thank you that you have given us Jesus Christ Thank you that you've given us redemption in him and Lord We pray that we would follow after you and love you and all all we do our whole lives in Jesus's name. Amen All right. May the Lord bless you. May you cherish the redemption that you have in Jesus Christ. We'll see you next time. You want to say bye? Bye. Bye.